Jerry Fessenden builds a pedal steel guitar in his Montpelier workshop Credit: Jeb Wallace-Brodeur “This is a horrible little shop,” Jerry Fessenden says as he opens the door to a shack abutting the ...

An anchor of the classic mid-century Nashville sound, the pedal steel guitar has been a trusted part of the broader pop palette at least since Jerry Garcia added affable, if primitive, pedal steel to ...

There are few more beautiful sounds in the world than a pedal-steel guitar played by a competent musician. I once played in a band with a pedal steel player, and tried to figure it out myself.

Pedal steel guitar virtuoso, composer, and improviser Susan Alcorn, who played an important role in broadening the horizons of the instrument beyond country, Hawaiian music, and traditional folk music ...

This weekend’s “Steel Guitar Celebration” presented by the Pedal Steel Guitar Association (PSGA) brings leading steel guitar players like the legendary Tom Vollmer, Buck Reid, Cindy Cashdollar, Rob ...

With a daring avant-garde approach, she pushed the frontiers of an instrument best known for speaking with a down-home accent. By Alex Williams Susan Alcorn, an experimental composer and musician who ...

Building guitar pedals has come a long way from hooking up a few transistors and building a simple boost circuit. [Cloudscapes] has been working on a Anti-nautilus auto glitch, auto repeat pedal, and ...

The band is currently fighting for freedom of speech as their first model guitar pedal, the Pussy Melter, was banned from being sold by a fan on Reverb. Reverb said to the seller, “We understand what ...

The guitar, the banjo, the mandolin, the fiddle, and the upright bass are just a few of the instruments commonly associated with country music. Though there is one instrument missing from that list, ...